Do you keep breeding records?

[warhawk]

I was wondering how many of us that breed keep records of their geckos.

I have two sets of records one is just on the animal and one set for if I breed them.

Over the years I have noticed most breeders don't talk about records that much not sure if that is because they don't or if it is a secret.

 

[kgeckoman]

I think it is a good idea to keep records if you are trying to breed different morphs. If you are just going to keep geckos for pets there is no need to keep records.

 

[Tokaybyt]

What's this concept of keeping records on your herps?...



That's for my corns. I used to keep similar records on my leopard gecko pairings, but they got inadvertently thrown out in a move back in 2002 and I never started it back up. Oddly though, I could probably tell you almost every detail pertaining to each of the 46 leos I still keep; including my "old man", my first leo I got back in Oct '96 that I still have.

Psst...a little secret to those lurking. Above said 19 year old gecko has lived on play sand since June of 1997. :shock: :yawn:

 

[warhawk]

Kgeckoman@ while I understand your point I feel even a pet could benefit from some record keeping. For example my first sheet has Date of Birth and weights, this way I can tell very quickly if they are loosing weigh or even eating right as they grow. I weight them once a week when I'm cleaning their tanks. But for a pet only no reason to keep a detail record of their morphs and Hets.

Tokaybyt@ My sheet is pretty close to yours. And while I don't have as many geckos as you do I can tell you the details of each of mine, might not have the DOB but I do know the months off the top of my head. But with my boys wanting to help me I like to have a place for it to be writen down and I know as I get older the those details might not be as sharp.


Here are the sheets I use.